Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright pictorial boards, 208 pages, color plates. The queen of American Jewish cooking (Houston Chronicle) revises her children's classic for a new generation. In Jewish tradition, holidays are a time for family and feasting, and for Joan Nathan, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young, Nathan published the first version of this book, which covers nine Jewish holidays and includes step-by-step instructions for kids and their families to prepare accessible feasts. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grand-children's generation (Out with the Pot Roast! In with the Tahini Shakes!) and adds a heaping helping of new recipes. Included are dishes old and new, traditional and novel, and mouthwatering recipes that everyone will enjoy, from Moroccan Apricot Chicken and Chicken Schnitzel Tenders to Mushroom Kreplach Dumplings and Veggie Quiche.Included are essays on the history of Jewish holidays, instructions for how to celebrate them, and craft activities such as making challah covers and candlesticks. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Walter M. Hill, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers chipped espcially on rear and faded. Internally clean, tight. Pages uncut and show some rubbing. Soil to bottom page block.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, Reprint, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 242 pages. Hardcover. Photographs by Mark Luinenburg. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. Now you can fill your kitchen with the irresistible aromas of a French bakery every day with just five minutes of active preparation time, and this book will show you how.
Hardcover. NY, Greenberg Publisher, 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in yellow cloth with green lettering and design, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, soiled. This was a generic cook book which was sold through various department stores. The title was altered to fit the store that was distributing it (ie: The Emporium's Modern Cook Book...) Names on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 255 pages, color illustrations. Following Benoit's guidance, you will make classic doughs, including puff pastry, choux pastry and brioche, learning how to create stand-out bakes with perfect texture and flavour. Try your hand at crispy, buttery Palmiers, classic viennoiseries like Pain aux Raisin, build pies and tarts including Tarte Tatin and Salted Caramel Millionaire Chocolate Tart, and make traditional offerings such as Coffee & Orange Creme Brulee and Macarons, as well as impressive recipes like Lemon & Grapefruit Dacquoise. With this masterclass from Chef Patissier at Le Manoir Aux QuatSaisons and judge of Bake Off: The Professionals, you will be inspired to create your own masterpieces at home. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Brookline, MA, America's Test Kitchen, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Small notes written in by previous owner in a few places, doesn't obscure text or illustrations, pages and edges clean otherwise. Binding tight, spine straight. Decorated cover boards, pristine.
Hardcover. New York, Fox Duffield & Co., 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages, 13 pages of b&w photographs (12 African American portraits by A.L. Coburn). Textured blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering and ruled design. Some light soiling and wear to covers and spine. Internally clean, a few dog-eared pages.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 319 pages, color illustrations. This stunning cookbook collects 100 of the most timeless and seminal recipes from the first leg of Bobby Flays monumental career in one place, for the first time ever. At the age of sixteen, Bobby Flay left high school and the idea of traditional education behind to pursue a life in professional restaurant kitchens. Through his groundbreaking restaurants, cookbooks, and numerous television shows, Flay has built a body of work that is one of the most influential in American culinary history. His stamp can be felt in restaurants across the country, as well as at the dinner table in many families' homes. Read the essays, absorb the photography, and most important, cook tantalizing dishes from this book. Bobby Flay has put decades of his daily work into these pages. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, very good. Yellow ribbon bookmark attached top of spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. This is the story of he world's most traveled sourdough as told by Malin Elmlid, the globe-trotting baker and founder of the Bread Exchange, who trades her handmade bread for family recipes, treasured experiences, and objects that have special meaning to all who trade with her.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed, 1st, 2024, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 238 pages, color illustrations. Tom Parker Bowles, award-winning food writer, restaurant critic, and son of Queen Camilla, blends history, monarchy, and gastronomy to provide a fascinating window into the world of royal tastes and traditions as far back as Victorian times. An intimate cookbook exploring 200 years of British royal food, studded with anecdotes, delectable tidbits, and nuggets of history, featuring 100 accessible recipes. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st Edition, 2018, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. With more than ninety recipes for simple yet stunning food, and thoughtful tips on how to hack your kitchen, home, and life, Sam explains how the food system really works, and how easy, small tasty choices add up to enormous change.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with bookplate, numbers on spine, stamping. Black & white drawings. Book features directions for making fireless cookers, insulated ovens, and refrigerating boxes. Includes 250 recipes plus kitchen tips. Front cover with rubbing to surface near printed title. Foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover, signature and pasted in baking tips. Handwritten recipes on rear endpages, some brief notes at points in margins. Black & white illustrations by Sarah K. Smith. White cover with pale blue title and illustration, spine faded entirely to white.
Hardcover. London, JR Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Signed personal letter from author enclosed. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has small repaired rip on spine, otherwise very good. Gilt title on spine. There a small bit of staining (food) to a couple of the pages. Binding tight and in excellent shape.
Hardcover. Great Britain, Octopus Publishing Group, Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover, French Flaps. color illustrations throughout. Text and photography by Dan Lepard. Binding tight. Pages clean and bright. Wrapper glossy, very good. A collection of recipes, personal stories and photographs that capture the breads and home bakers of Europe.
Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 390 pages with index and many illustrations, mostly b&w, some color. Photographs by Leon Perer. While not a recipe book, Pepin provides recipes to illustrated his techniques. No later printing listed on the copyright page. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to top page block, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 276 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers and cover boards. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Like new, in beautiful condition. A fitting celebration of the vision and allure of Mast Brothers Chocolate, the choice of the world's great chefs.
Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 301 pages, color illustrations. Across the Mediterranean, one delicious cuisine gives way to the next. From Spain and Italy, through Greece and Turkey and down to North Africa, the region is rich with deeply delicious food. In Mediterra, renowned chef and author Ben Tish gives the tour of a lifetime. With seven-spice falafel from Lebanon, pork belly gyros from Greece, classic tiramisu from Italy, and grilled smoky sardines from Crete, the full flavors of the region are on glorious display for recipes that work across diets and seasons. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John E. Potter and co, 1st, 1871, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black embossed decoration on front cover with moderate soil and abrasions. Front hinge cracked, with gutter cracks throughout. Covers and spine show fraying and edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. A Cape Cod cook book. Light foxing to fore edge copy. Very small tear to dust jacket lower spine. Faint yellowing to rear dust jacket top edge. Decorative staining to top edge copy block. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 590 pages. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR MOLLY STEVENS ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial padded boards, 367 pages. The author belongs to the third generation of a family of pork devotees. The grandson of a village butcher on the Ardeche plateau in France, where they take their pork very seriously, Stephane is owner of VILLA 9 TROIS in Montreuil, near Paris, a highly-regarded restaurant that specializes in pork. Color photographs by Marie-Pierre Morel, illustrations by Jose Reis de Matos. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon Element, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 256 pages, color plates. Salt Hank's love for food began when he first tasted salami on Christmas Day at six years old, and it changed the trajectory of his life. Hank, also known as Henry Laporte, now makes big-personality videos about the most flavor-packed food imaginable for millions of Die-Hard fans. His TikTok and Instagram videos may not have a lot of talking (except to capture Hank's gasps of joy when he tastes the final dish), but they do have many mouthwatering close-ups of dripping sauce, juicy meats, crispy bread, and whatever else is sure to stir the heart of viewers and leave them craving more. Salt Hank is his first cookbook that includes an entire chapter of fried food; main courses like Bang Bang Shrimp Tacos or Duck Breast with Potato Chips and Pan Sauce; a chapter dedicated to sauces and dips because Salt Hank wouldn't be Salt Hank without decadent sauces; plenty of recipes for pickles; and of course, sandwiches...a lot of sandwiches. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Artisan, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover i pictorial boards, 311 pages, color plates. For the first time ever, the recipes for pintxos--the small dishes found in bars in Basque Country--are gathered to present the definitive bible on this significant food of Basque culture, along with the history and people who created them, written by award-winning author Marti Buckley. *Named a Best Cookbook to Gift in 2024 by Chowhound, and a Best New Cookbook of Spring 2024 by Epicurious. In the first authoritative book on this subject, author and Basque transplant Marti Buckley defines what makes a pintxo, traces its history back several decades, and shares the recipes so home cooks can authentically recreate these tiny morsels in their own kitchens. Through 70 recipes, bar profiles, histories, and vivid photographs, The Book of Pintxos unlocks a window into this dynamic Basque food culture for curious eaters everywhere. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Features more than 80 of Tasha Tudor's favorite family recipes accompanied by her wonderful illustrations, book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no significant flaws, the original price is present ($26.99). Clean copy.
Hardcover. Gutersloh GR, C. Bertelsmann,, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 438 pages, chipped dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. JULIA CHILD'S COPY with her signature, address and 1956 on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Murdoch Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 231 pages, color plates. Melbourne food people and out of towners in the know quickly formed a queue at Andreas Papadakis's tiny city eatery when word of his astonishingly good pasta got out. What could this unassuming Greek chef's secret be, they wondered - he's not even Italian! Here, at last, across 80-plus recipes, Andreas welcomes loyal fans and readers into the Tipo 00 vault and shows them how it's possible to recreate the magic at home. Covering different fresh pasta techniques, shapes and sauces, and including step-by steps, Tipo 00, the book, is a master-class for anyone who wants to revolutionize their pasta game. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Sydney/London, Murdoch Books , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 327 pages, color plates. An Asian cookbook written with fresh eyes by an author whose soul lies in Asia but who has adopted techniques and ingredients from the west that endear his recipes to cooks everywhere. Structured by food type - from meat, poultry and seafood to vegetables, and dumplings -Tony Tan's Cooking Class takes readers through the fundamentals of more than 100 beloved dishes, many core to the canon, others dishes that he has made his own. Tan shares insights on the key building blocks, from the art of the wok to understanding the role of oils and fats to noodles 101 and the essential pantry. Beautifully photographed, thoughtfully illustrated and evocatively written, this is the essential book for a new generation on the essential foods and techniques of Asian cuisine from a beloved teacher, cook, writer and respected expert. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 385 pages, color illustrations. James Beard Award-winning chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi share the secrets of their beloved restaurant, which has become synonymous with New York City's Greenwich Village. Since 2014, Via Carota has been a destination for food lovers, celebrities, and well-informed travelers because of its impeccable Italian fare. Emphasizing vegetables and seasonal cooking, the dishes that come out of Williams and Sodi's kitchen are astonishing in their simplicity yet dazzling in their elegance. Now, with this beautiful, deeply personal cookbook, they share the keys to cooking Via Carota's traditional (but not too traditional) cuisine at home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA CHILD on HALF TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Color photographs throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st Edition, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 199 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated cover boards, pristine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. Adapting all his recipes for the home cook, Torres showcases his favorite chocolate creations--from traditional French pastry to classic American treats.